Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-02-07

''No, Maggie, frankly, don't love
him."
yet you are going to marry him?"
sit seems so" the speaker, Isabel
Deering, laughed merrily as she caught
a view of her friends grave face.
care you not afraid, Isabel?"
''Afraid of what?" Miss Isabels
eyebrows arched themselves interroga-
lively, and she said, jestingly: 1T
feels quite like novel, Mag-love on
one side. Everyday people have it on
both. / want something different, you
see. Why, my dear, how could l Judge
my husband critically if happened to
be in love with him?" She paused q
little while, and then went on, laugh
ingly:
Il couldn't, for instance, select his
clothes, because he looked well in any.
thing. I'd let him wear mustaches
when clean lips were en- regle; he'd
smoke in my parlors, put his feet on
my mantel, and possibly chew! Think
of it! But now dear Miss Deering
continued, II shall have no such OBJ
struetion TO clear views. / can scan
the lord of the manor with critical
eye, and it is great advantage, really.
can see no sensible reason why wo-
man should fall, to use the common
parlance, in love.
Maggie said nothing, but the strong
protest expressed on her face was I'm.
mistakable.
Say something Maggie" Miss
Deering said after little.
''It's too late to say anything, dear"
her friend replied slowly.
Never mind, say what YOU think. /"
"Well, | think / am sorry for YOU
both.
"Humph short silence during
which Isabel beat light tattoo with
the point of her shapcly boot. She
drew chair, and watched her friends
deft fingers fasten long sprays of or,
ange blossoms upon the rich lace veil
which had been Isabcl's mothers
at is unjust to jack Stuart to marry
him, feeling as you do toward Robert
Stanope."
How do feel Mag" Isabel asked,
a light color coming TO her cheek. II
don't really know
Her friend Looked at her steadily as
she said: You love him. Isabel, and
you know it.
mo, really, doG't thia& | do; did
last winter, bit / rinn-t hate him
sometimes noW, Ia .pi}c Of his being
the most attractive inaH ever saw"
''He has no principles Isabel's
friend interrupted her warmly.
'Why should ycu say thata
You need hardly ASK the question,
since it was his conduct toward you
that showed me his true character"
sit was a mutual agreement that we
should part, both We're so poor then"
Isabel said, slowly.
'.Originated by Robert himself, how
ever" Maggie said, severely.
"But l tell you | really don't love
Robert Stanope now" Isabel repeated,
good-naturedly; Il don't love him,
I've only a sort of tenderness for him.
| don't believe any woman could re-
fuse Robert Stanope on Il first offer. =
81 know what you have been think
ing, Isabel, Maggie went on, speak
ing rapidly. ''An introduction to your
husband is the trump card to be played
in sweet revenge when Robert Stanope
seeks you again, as he will when he
knows of your fortune; but remember,
you are giving a good mans life as
sacrifice to Your own wounded vanity"
do you suppose he is marrying me
for my accommodation? Isabel asked,
impatiently, 'Pshaw he wants
mistress for Shockoe, and he shall have
ene"
lis that alp"
mo, ] think he loves me in his
heavy way" Miss Deering said, slow
", "but he's so-oh, don't know
he's ao-hc has no intuitions. If |
should say: Jack, dear ] love YOU very